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Hell freezes over: AP reports Obama’s tax lies

What’s the over/under on how long it will take this soon-to-be-former AP writer to lose his job?  Excerpt:

President Barack Obama promised to fix health care and trim the federal budget deficit, all without raising taxes on anyone but the wealthiest Americans. It’s a promise he’s already broken and will likely have to break again. Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress have already increased tobacco taxes — which disproportionately hit the poor — to pay for extending health coverage to 4 million children in working low-income families.

Now, lawmakers are looking for more revenues to help pay for providing medical insurance to millions more who lack it at a projected cost of $1 trillion over the next decade.

The floated proposals include increasing taxes on alcohol, which could raise $62 billion over the next decade, and a new tax on sugary drinks such as soda, which could raise $52 billion. …

Obama made a firm tax pledge during the presidential campaign, repeating it numerous times in the weeks and months leading up to Election Day: no tax increases for individuals making less than $200,000 a year or couples making less than $250,000.

“Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,” Obama told a crowd in Dover, N.H., last year.

How this one escaped the passing of the Kool-Aid cup is beyond me.

July 9, 2009 Posted by | big government, economic ignorance, hypocrisy, Obama, taxes | 5 Comments

Democrats think dissent is no longer patriotic?

Man, I wish these flip-floppers would make up their minds!  From Politico:

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has had an eventful couple of weeks to say the least, believes House Republican opposition to climate change legislation and the stimulus indicates they’re cheering against the good ol’ US of A.

“It appears that the Republican Party leadership in the Congress has made a decision that they want to deny President Obama success, which means, in my mind, they are rooting against the country, as well,” the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman told WAMU radio host Diane Rehm on Tuesday morning, promoting his new book, “The Waxman Report.”  (I wonder if his new book sheds any light on how he got those manhole-sized nostrils? – Ed.)

Oh, I get it.  Merely opposing a politician’s ideas or policies constitutes treason?

Well, then, let’s round up all of the Democrats in the House and Senate that served from 2001 through January 2009 and ship them off to the federal pen.  After all, all these cretins did during those years was fight the president, which, by their “logic”, means they were “rooting against the country”.  Sure, they were telling us (or, in the case of the Hilldawg, were shrieking loudly) that they would not allow their disagreements with Bush to be portrayed as unpatriotic.  But apparently, the whole “dissent <> unpatriotic” thingy only applies when the president is a Republican.

July 9, 2009 Posted by | hypocrisy | 1 Comment

   

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